The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has opened an investigation into alleged fraud committed against Thurrock Council by Rockfire ...

Mid Sussex DC has launched a legal challenge over the Planning Inspectorate’s “ill-founded” dismissal of its local plan. The ...

A failure to grasp this opportunity will only further entrench fragmentation and frustration, writes the president of the ...

Just 21% of council figures say their authority is better off as a result of Labour’s actions since entering government last ...

Six Labour mayors have urged the government to grant them devolved powers to implement a visitor levy in a bid to boost ...

Devolution offers opportunities to build stronger, greener and more sustainable communities across the country, writes the recent president of the ...

The government has given the LGPS much of the certainty it has asked for – but whether it will deliver what ministers want is ...

Next month’s spending review could "make or break" county and unitary authority budgets without an injection of funding, the ...

Kent CC has become the first Reform-controlled local authority to be scrutinised by a taskforce looking for spending cuts. A ...

The chief executive of the West Midlands CA Laura Shoaf has announced she will leave after four years in charge. Ms Shoaf’s ...

The council’s success was built on sustained capacity, institutional knowledge and the political will to think big and act ...

New figures reveal the costs of policing the Birmingham waste dispute have stung taxpayers for almost £1m. Figures were ...